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Newton D. Baker, Secretary of War under President Woodrow Wilson and himself a Hopkins alumnus, unveils a plaque in the Alumni Memorial Dormitory commemorating male Hopkins affiliates who died during the war. (There were also casualties among the…

This is a photo of Upton Mansion from 1936, eleven years before it housed the Baltimore Institute of Musical Arts. The Institute was a thriving music school open to all races at a time when Peabody remained closed to African-American students.

Upton Mansion, a historic building in the Upton neighborhood in Baltimore, housed the Baltimore Institute of Musical Arts from 1947-1954. Once a beautiful facility that was home to a vibrant music community, it has been abandoned since 2006.

This arm band was initially worn by Vashti Bartlett when she marched with the Red Cross in President Taft's 1909 inauguration parade. This is the same style of arm bands worn by Red Cross nurses like Bartlett when serving with the Red Cross in World…